Monday, October 17th, 2011
A report in Inside Housing states that Westminster Council has said it wants to reward those actively seeking work while at the same time discouraging a ‘benefits culture’. Currently residents are given priority according to need including factors such as homelessness, medical needs and young children. Now the council has decided to give priority to households where the main applicant has been working under a written contract for at least two years.
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
Brian Milligan of the BBC has highlighted the fact that flat-owners’ complaints about service charges have risen by 46% in two years to 7,600, figures show. They queried the amount they were being asked to pay for maintenance and repairs, the Leasehold Advisory Service for England and Wales said. In some cases flat-owners have been asked for payments of tens of thousands of pounds by those who manage the blocks they live in. But an agents’ association said actual numbers of complaints remained low.
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